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Living Through the ArtsMr. Tuner, a film review
Painting the landscape with Mr. Turner It is with the art historian enthusiasm that I purchased my ticket to see Mike Leigh’s latest movie Mr. Turner. Should it be a movie to be mandatory seen by my students, or my artists attending our painting art classes in Italy...
Devenons artistes de la Décennie des Lumières (2015-2015)
L'art de la Décennie des Lumières 2015-2025 L’année 2014 a été certes une qui sera bien rappelée par l’histoire. Que de guerres, que d’occupation illégitime, que de barbarie; que de pleurs, que de souffrance; que d’obscurantisme. Quoi écrire à ce moment? Je ne sais...
The Art of the Second Enlightment (2015-2025)
Be an artist of the Second Enlightment! 2014 was certainly a year that will be well remembered by history. So many wars, so many illegitimate occupations, so much barbarism; so many tears, so much pain; such deep obscurantism. What can I write in this post? I do not...
Jack Bush, an inspiration when you will be in Italy
Jack Bush and Walk the Arts' classes In Canada’s capital, Ottawa, there is a fantastic exhibit on Jack Bush (1909-1977), undoubtedly the most important English Canadian painter— Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) being the most important one in French Canada. Dr. Sarah...
Hortense Fiquet : a muse in the shadows
Madame Cézanne at the Met show during New York Art Trip 2015 (March 12-15) In 1869, Cézanne started to live with Hortense Fiquet, a bookbinder 11 years younger than him, whom he had met as a model in Paris when he was studying painting. For eight years, Cézanne kept...
How to paint a landscape
How to paint an Italian landscape in Tuscany. In our last post, we wrote that if you search in YouTube « How to paint an Italian landscape », you will get about 5470 results. In the vicinity of painting “B” (below), all paintings look alike. It is a painting that...
Our teaching philosophy: originality and self-expression
What recent participants of Walk the Arts painting worshops in Tuscany and Provence say Testimonials from participants of our last two last painting workshops in Italy and France prove our philosophy of offering above all the experience of art, one close to Arthur...
What is beautiful IV – Your stories…
Now we are really reflecting during our art workshop in Provence To follow-up on my last post, during the last weeks I hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be available...
Semantics and Studio Italia
Contemporary art during painting workshop in Italy Just finished another Studio Italia. Undoubtedly, one of the highlights of our last painting workshop in Tuscany (near Montepulciano) was the making of an installation around the famous Chianina cow breed. For the...
What is beautiful III – Ugliness permits us…
Reflecting, reflecting during our art workshop in Italy. To follow-up on my last posts, during the last few weeks, I hired four astounding professors from various universities to work on the following question: “What is beautiful”? Their answers will be available...
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